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EcologyElise
@ecologyelise.bsky.social
370 followers 550 following 420 posts
ecologist, UCCer
enjoys knit/crochet, bugs, gardens, nature, @inaturalist.bsky.social.
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My obsession with our pet hermit crabs is entirely reasonable and justified.
October 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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GO SPIRIT! ⚽️ #washingtonspirit #nwsl
Audi field scoreboard showing Washington Spirit up 2-0 against the Houston Dash, video board showing a frame of the second goal replay.
September 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Viola Davis, best known for her role as "Policewoman" in Kate & Leopold (2001)
Image from Kate & Leopold movie, showing famous Oscar-nominated, Emmy-award-winning African American actress Viola Davis as a New York City Policewoman, wearing a dark navy uniform and police hat. She has a no-nonsense look, body slanted slightly toward the right side of the image, face straight but eyes looking up at a taller character not shown in the image.
September 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Article: The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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Text screenshot from linked article quoting Ted Chiang on generative AI. Text reads: "When you're a student at a university, you should think of yourself as an athlete in training, and the job you'll do after you graduate is the sport you will compete in. You don't know specifically which sport you will play, and neither do your professors. What your professors do know is that strength training will help you. That's what essay writing is; it's strength training for the brain. Using ChatGPT to write your essays is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you are never going to improve your cognitive fitness that way." Let me expand on that. Building [...]
August 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Small actions make a difference. Driving kiddo to camp, this group of 3-4 demonstrators sparked a conversation with my kid (who is very anti-Trump, but usually doesn't want to hear the name) asking for examples of the harms being done. Driving home, I was grinning from all the honking.
3-4 Protesters standing with signs on a street corner. Beyond them are 2 lanes of cars stopped in traffic. Woman wearing a neon safety vest holds up a sign reading "Honk for Democracy". Man in a "No Kings" tshirt carries a sign reading "Don't be part of the problem. Get involved!! Demonstrate / Call your reps / Join a protest group. Other protesters and signs are obscured from view. Faces are blurred, because I don't know them and didn't ask permission to post photo.
July 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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today's bright spot was definitely getting my AMAZING 'BIOLOGY IS BIGGER THAN BINARIES' shirt in the mail 🥰. Even better knowing that proceeds support @skypeascientist.bsky.social !
Thank you @sarahmackattack.bsky.social and @franzanth.bsky.social
Photo of middle aged white woman from neck to shins, wearing a black tshirt with text "BIOLOGY IS BIGGER THAN BINARIES" in white, with white and orange printed design of honeybee, lily flower, and clownfish. (And a zigzag black and white skirt)
June 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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#sqrlpix
@artologica.net
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Canyon, which is obscured by fog. A rainbow stretches across the fog and intersects a visible canyon edge (cliff face) on the right of the image. To the right of the squirrel, the tops of two trees (or shrubs) separate the foreground from the distant cliff.
June 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

No need to worry about me.
Cassian Andor, lead character of Star Wars "ANDOR" (played by actor Diego Luna), walking toward camera in dark clothes, looking determined. He wears dark clothes, including dark shirt, pants, boots, and a reddish-brown, possibly leather, mid-thigh-length jacket. He carries a bag or satchel that is barely visible behind his right hip; its strap crosses his body from left shoulder to right hip, held by his right hand.
June 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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maybe not the most adorbs but at least he's not glaring ...
Orange and white cat crouches in open suitcase. Cat is alert; its attention is to the right of the camera, one eye visible. Tail sticks out above the suitcase in background.
May 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Screenshot of Newest Columns of Opinion section of Washington Post website. Section lists eight headlines. Top row: (1)'Tech bro Maoists' are torching the country that made them rich by Fareed Zakaria, (2) Here's the real threat to 'personal liberties and free markets' by Dana Milbank, (3) Urgently needed: A reborn patriotic belief in Western virtues by George F Will, (4) Why 'Anora' should win best picture by Will Leitch. Bottom Row: (5) Death of child from measles in an ominous sign by Megan McArdle, (6) Understanding Trump's Ukraine mineral deal-slash-shakedown by Drew Goins, (7)This hero represented a new path for Russia. Putin destroyed it. by Vladimir Kara-Murza, (8)The story behind the rightward shift of young men by Philip Bump.
February 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I made a not very good Sketch of a frog 😃
January 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Sure, I gave it a go 😃 Happy Birthday!
Amateur sketch of vampire squid, drawn in honor of @sarahmackattack.bsky.social’s birthday, january 2025. Drawn in black erasable ink on white paper; printed text of a journal article on the reverse side of the paper is evident
January 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Gray domestic short-hair cat on persons lap. Person’s hand at top of frame holds multicolor crochet project and crochet hook. Cat is sniffing the strand of yarn hanging down from the crochet project. standing on a lap, poking their head under a hand holding a multicolor crochet project, sniffing a strand of white yarn
December 16, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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I'm catsitting this week ... here's a friendly kitty brightening my day ... and distracting me from the to do list 🙂
Gray cat laying on its back on the floor, partially on off-white rug. Cat looks up at the camera with yellow eyes, one paw tucked down and one out.
December 13, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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not the worst fate 😃. (#not-my-lap)
Cat laying on red blanket covering a person’s legs. Sports game on tv in background.
November 18, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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Well I searched my google photos for "cute" and it said "No results" which is ridiculous but here is an orange kitty that came up in the search for "animal"
Orange domestic short-hair cat with white muzzle & chest crouches in open cardboard box, surrounded by crumpled brown paper packing material. Cat faces slightly to the left and down of the camera, and its attention seems to be focused there - pupils fairly wide, ears cocked forward.
November 5, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains
View of lake: Foreground has two figures silhouetted on a dock which angles out into the water from bottom right corner of image. A child in shorts & tshirt holding a fishing pole stands at the end of the dock, facing right toward an adult seated on the dock, who is baiting the fishing hook. In the background, the far shore of the lake, lights and buildings visible at shore, below a forested slope; the hill slopes down close to the lakeshore at the right side of the frame. In the sky, there is the faint orange of an obscured sunset to the left of low shadowed clouds . The water reflects the sky.
October 30, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Welcome to the bluesky party y’all
Orange and white cat curled up on a red blanket
October 18, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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Can't resist posting a common local blue (Eastern tailed-blue) since this is Bluesky. Looks like some predator was tricked by this friend's eyespot & tail.

If you see this, won't you join and post a butterfly to celebrate 10 million users on Bluesky?
Eastern tailed-blue (Cupido comyntas) adult butterfly (wings folded up so underside of wings is visible), with missing section of hindwing near "tail" (likely a result of attempted predation). brown background.
September 20, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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we don't know each other but I am really glad I follow you and you are part of my online community. I appreciate you, your art, and your critters.
November 16, 2023 at 5:46 PM